"Marco Dorigo and Thomas Stutzle impressively demonstrate that the importance of ant behavior reaches far beyond the sociobiological domain. Ant Colony Optimization presents the most successful algorithmic techniques to be developed on the basis on ant behavior. This book will certainly open the gates for new experimental work on decision making, division of labor, and communication; moreover, it will also inspire all those studying patterns of self-organization."
--- Bert Holldobler, Professor of Behavioral Physiology and Sociobiology, Biozentrum, University of Wurzburg, Germany

General Chair: Marco DORIGO, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium (Marco Dorigo is research director of the IRIDIA lab at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and the inventor of the Ant Colony Optimization metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization problems)